Everything That Rises Must Converge (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Flannery O’Connor
- First Published: 1961
- Type of Plot: Realism
- Time of Work: The 1950's
- Setting: The urban South
- Principal Characters: Julian Chestny, Mrs. Chestny, A black woman and child
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Social realism, Short fiction
- Subjects: African Americans, Values, Mothers, Parents and children, Class conflict, Racism, South or Southerners, Prejudices or antipathies, Religion, Class consciousness, Violence, Death or dying, Revelation, Generation gap, Hats
- Locales: South (U.S.)
The Story
A middle-aged working woman, the remnant of a once aristocratic, slaveholding family, prepares to go to her YWCA exercise class, recommended for her high blood pressure. She insists that her son accompany her on the bus, for she is afraid to ride the buses alone as they have become integrated. The young man, superficially educated in liberal ideas, is contemptuous of her racial bigotry and fancies himself vastly more enlightened and intellectual than she.
As the story opens, she is undecided as to whether she should wear the new green hat with the purple velvet...
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